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Press Releases from the University of Hawaii at Hiloen-usCopyright 2015, University of Hawaii at Hilo, all rights reserveduhhilo@hawaii.edu (UH Hilo Webmaster)Tue, 31 Mar 2015 20:44:09 GMTCall for Nominations – 2015 UH Hilo ...The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Alumni and Friends Association is currently accepting nominations to honor individuals for their outstanding achievements and contributions. Deadline for nominations for the 2015 Distinguished Alumni & Service Awards is August 29, 2014.

Each year, the Association grants one or more Distinguished Alumni Awards to individuals based on the nominee’s professional accomplishments, community service, and service to the University. Nominees must have completed at least 50% of his/her educational program at UH Hilo. For those who attended UH Hilo prior to 1973, person would need one year at UH Hilo.

The Distinguished Service Award is given to those whose contributions to UH Hilo (financial or service) have benefited the University in numerous and significant ways. Nominees must have demonstrated consistent contributions to the University over a reasonable period of time, and whose contributions have had a positive impact on the students and/or the University.

UH Hilo’s 15th Annual Distinguished Alumni and Service Awards Banquet is set for February 2015. Banquet date and location will be announced at a later date. The public is invited and encouraged to attend; proceeds help sponsor alumni outreach activities and the Alumni Scholarship Fund.

Nomination forms can be found at http://hilo.hawaii.edu/alumni/distinguished-alumni.php, or call (808) 974-7501 for more information.

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Call for Nominations – 2015 UH Hilo ...The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Alumni and Friends Association is currently accepting nominations to honor individuals for their outstanding achievements and contributions. Deadline for nominations for the 2015 Distinguished Alumni & Service Awards is August 29, 2014.

Each year, the Association grants one or more Distinguished Alumni Awards to individuals based on the nominee’s professional accomplishments, community service, and service to the University. Nominees must have completed at least 50% of his/her educational program at UH Hilo. For those who attended UH Hilo prior to 1973, person would need one year at UH Hilo.

The Distinguished Service Award is given to those whose contributions to UH Hilo (financial or service) have benefited the University in numerous and significant ways. Nominees must have demonstrated consistent contributions to the University over a reasonable period of time, and whose contributions have had a positive impact on the students and/or the University.

UH Hilo’s 15th Annual Distinguished Alumni and Service Awards Banquet is set for February 2015. Banquet date and location will be announced at a later date. The public is invited and encouraged to attend; proceeds help sponsor alumni outreach activities and the Alumni Scholarship Fund.

Nomination forms can be found at http://hilo.hawaii.edu/alumni/distinguished-alumni.php, or call (808) 974-7501 for more information.

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Call for Nominations – 2015 UH Hilo ...The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Alumni and Friends Association is currently accepting nominations to honor individuals for their outstanding achievements and contributions. Deadline for nominations for the 2015 Distinguished Alumni & Service Awards is August 29, 2014.

Each year, the Association grants one or more Distinguished Alumni Awards to individuals based on the nominee’s professional accomplishments, community service, and service to the University. Nominees must have completed at least 50% of his/her educational program at UH Hilo. For those who attended UH Hilo prior to 1973, person would need one year at UH Hilo.

The Distinguished Service Award is given to those whose contributions to UH Hilo (financial or service) have benefited the University in numerous and significant ways. Nominees must have demonstrated consistent contributions to the University over a reasonable period of time, and whose contributions have had a positive impact on the students and/or the University.

UH Hilo’s 15th Annual Distinguished Alumni and Service Awards Banquet is set for February 2015. Banquet date and location will be announced at a later date. The public is invited and encouraged to attend; proceeds help sponsor alumni outreach activities and the Alumni Scholarship Fund.

Nomination forms can be found at http://hilo.hawaii.edu/alumni/distinguished-alumni.php, or call (808) 974-7501 for more information.

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College of Business and Economics’ Dean’s List, ...The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo College of Business and Economics announces its Dean’s List for the Spring 2014 semester:

The American Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) has now found DKICP compliant with all of the 30 standards that it uses to evaluate colleges of pharmacy.

The main issue considered by the ACPE was compliance with the standard concerning physical facilities. In May this year, State House and Senate budget conferees agreed to fund a building to house the College on Hawaiʻi Island.

Chancellor Donald Straney: “I was secure in the knowledge that our community knew the value of the College of Pharmacy to the future, to the economy and to the general well-being of our State. I want to thank everyone involved for their continued support that led to the funding of a permanent building.”

In 2013, ACPE declared DKICP was out of compliance with the standard concerning physical facilities after which, without promise of a permanent building, could ultimately lead to probation. Founding Dean John Pezzuto said probation could have signaled the end of the College.

“If we had followed the path we were on just a year ago, I could be saying that we have been placed on probation, which would've been disastrous for the future of the College,” Pezzuto said. “It is heartening that our accreditation is once again secure, but we all must remain diligent and prepare for the next steps.”

The College now must complete a self-study due by September, to be followed by an on-site visit in October 2014. The results of the site visit and continuation of accreditation will be reviewed at the next ACPE Board meeting, to be held in January 2015.

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Call for Nominations – 2015 UH Hilo ...The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Alumni and Friends Association is currently accepting nominations to honor individuals for their outstanding achievements and contributions. Deadline for nominations for the 2015 Distinguished Alumni & Service Awards is August 29, 2014.

Each year, the Association grants one or more Distinguished Alumni Awards to individuals based on the nominee’s professional accomplishments, community service, and service to the University. Nominees must have completed at least 50% of his/her educational program at UH Hilo. For those who attended UH Hilo prior to 1973, person would need one year at UH Hilo.

The Distinguished Service Award is given to those whose contributions to UH Hilo (financial or service) have benefited the University in numerous and significant ways. Nominees must have demonstrated consistent contributions to the University over a reasonable period of time, and whose contributions have had a positive impact on the students and/or the University.

UH Hilo’s 15th Annual Distinguished Alumni and Service Awards Banquet is set for February 2015. Banquet date and location will be announced at a later date. The public is invited and encouraged to attend; proceeds help sponsor alumni outreach activities and the Alumni Scholarship Fund.

Nomination forms can be found at http://hilo.hawaii.edu/alumni/distinguished-alumni.php, or call (808) 974-7501 for more information.

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Dean of pharmacy to leave UH HiloIn an announcement made today, John M. Pezzuto, founding dean of the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy, will leave the University at the end of this year to assume his new duties as Professor and Dean of the Arnold and Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at Long Island University (LIU) located in Brooklyn, NY. Pezzuto became the first dean of the only college of pharmacy in the Pacific region when he left Purdue University in 2006.

“I came to UH Hilo from a top-ranked pharmacy college because it presented the challenge of starting a college of pharmacy where there was none before,” Pezzuto said. “My wife Mimi and I and our three children have cherished our time in the Aloha State. The decision of taking these next steps has been extraordinarily difficult. But LIU is one of the oldest pharmacy programs in the country, and I feel that I am uniquely suited to help them reach the next levels of preeminence.”

When Pezzuto arrived in Hawaiʻi, the College of Pharmacy had no offices, no staff, no students, and no assurance of a future. He methodically assembled a staff of world-renowned faculty who would build the school into what is now a contender for one of the top-25 ranked colleges in the U.S.

“It has been a great pleasure working with someone of Dean Pezzuto’s caliber,” said Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Matt Platz. “This is sad news for the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, but because he has worked diligently on preparing the College for this day, I am confident we are ready for the next steps. I have no doubt his name will live on in the future of our College, and we are grateful for the work he has done to get us to this point.”

Pezzuto is well known for his research that identified the cancer-preventive component of grapes and grape products known as resveratrol. After the research report was published in Science Magazine in 1997, many more stories in scientific journals as well as mainstream media focused on the discovery that gave real promise to the fight against cancer. According to the Web of Science Core Collection, his work on resveratrol has been cited more than 3,000 times.

Most recently, he was given the top research award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), as well as an award from the Cantine Due Palme in Italy for outstanding contributions in the field of research and culture.

Prior to joining UH Hilo, he served as Professor and Dean of the College of Pharmacy, Nursing and Health Sciences at Purdue University. Pezzuto has been supported by the National Institutes of Health continuously since 1977. He is the author of more than 500 manuscripts, editor of the journal Pharmaceutical Biology, holder of many patents, a member of several editorial boards, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The University plans to launch a nationwide search to identify the next dean of the College.

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Faculty-student paper published in top scientific journalA short paper on nonlinear science, co-authored by a University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo physics professor and a recently graduated student has been published in the June 19 issue of Nature. With an estimated readership of nearly half a million, Nature is considered one of the world's top two scientific journals.

“How chaos forgets and remembers” was co-authored by Dr. Philippe M. Binder, and by Robert M. Pipes, who graduated last month with bachelor’s degrees in physics and astronomy from UH Hilo. The paper was written as part of a course project in the Phys/Math 380 course taught by Binder last semester.

Their work examined a recent study that has added a layer of subtlety to a central tenet of chaos theory, which holds that deterministic models which produce the same output from a given starting condition or initial state, can display behavior that seems random.

It is widely believed that chaotic systems produce information as they evolve in time. Yet, a recent paper by James Crutchfield’s research group at the University of California at Davis found that some of the information measured in the present came from the past while the rest was newly created. Some of the created information carries into the future (is remembered) while the rest does not (is forgotten).

In addition to providing a historical context and illustrated example of these features, Binder and Pipes examine how the new findings can be used to gain a better understanding of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This physical law, not well understood at the fundamental level, defines the behavior in time of isolated systems ranging from gases mixed in a container to the entire Universe.

Binder described the joint article as a “milestone” and a good example of the fruitful collaborations that frequently develop among faculty and students within his department and division.

“Robert was an outstanding student here, and I am very happy that he will be recognized for this work,” Binder said.